As I weep for the doctor who is being forced to chose between her faith and her job I can barely play my violin. You too can help these people – somehow – I’m not sure how but their lives are being ruined as they are forced to accept gay marriage – a plague worse than cancer of the brain. This is not mindless propaganda, that woman is a real doctor and I am in no way being sarcastic. Please help these sad people.
Thanks Katie.
All I can think is ‘nom nom nom nom nom’
AHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAHahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah thats the FUNNIEST thing i’ve seen in ages!!!!!!
“public schools teaching my son that gay marriage is ‘ok’,” AHAHAHahahahahhahaahahahahahah what a tragedy.
blimey. un-fookin-believable.
xoxo
Aww. That poor girl will have no choice but to live in a world where people have equal rights, even if they do OMG icky things that she doesn’t approve of! And the anguish of the mother who can’t be sure that her son will be taught all about prejudice and homophobia (or self-hate if he turns out to be gay)! And the doctor…
…Hold on, I don’t even see what the doctor’s problem is. Well, maybe she won’t be allowed to Cure Teh Ghey anymore, I suppose. And she’d just invested in that nice shock treatment room. *sob, sniff sniff*
It’d be laughable if it wasn’t that sad (but not in the way they think).
OMG what a bunch of bigoted c**ts!!!! why is this allowed???
The clouds are dark indeed.Imagine if we had YouTube et al 40 years ago – now we could look at back at all the KKK videos; these people are laughable now, and,hopefully, their ilk will be extinct very soon.
The “doctor’s” problem is that Obama has proposed the repeal of some conscience clauses that allow healthcare providers to refrain from dispensing medications, advice and treatment they deem incompatible with their faith or morals. This does not mean abortion. Doctors aren’t forced into that anyway, it’s not like most general practitioners have the equipment on hand and it’s usually done by specialists, I think?
What it DOES do is allow hospital nurses to refrain from providing the morning after pill as part of a rape kit dispensed to a rape victim. It also allows the nurse to not reveal that it has been omitted, or why, or where the victim can obtain the pill. It allows doctors to refrain from prescribing birth control on purely moral grounds, if they feel girls are too young or it will encourage them. It allows pharmacists to decline to dispense prescribed birth control if they feel it’s wrong.
What this has to do with gay marriage I don’t know, probably the vague idea that all them pervert godless types are in it together.
It\’s funny how people in America feel the need to protect marraige and yet something like 50% of all heterosexual marriages in America end in divorce, I think they really should be trying to do something about those figures instead.
hmm…that ad was really gay.
They never actually specify in what way the gay rights advocates are “going beyond” their own rights and affecting these people’s lives. Is someone going to make these poor victims get married to people of the same sex? I haven’t heard about that initiative. I live in Massachusetts and have not yet been issued a mandatory wife. I’d be up for it if she would let me decide on what we tivo.
I should get busy creating a scene by scene parody of it….
I want my mandatory gay husband, stat!
I can’t get over the fact that there are still people who can say this and believe in what they say ….. poor kids (if they have them, or get them ..). Very narrow minded. And yes, I agree with Lotty … it’s so .. surreal that it’s kinda like a comedy or such …
The problem with God is that when you ask these people “hey, why don’t you want gay people to marry, what is it that worries you?” they just blame God.
“I don’t mind, they can do what they want BUT GOD DOESN’T LIKE IT”
If I were an allpowerful, allseeing, allknowing deity these people would tick me off and I might be persuaded to throw thunderbolts while I shout “Why aren’t you still doing the things you used to do hundreds and thousands of years ago in marriage such as concubines, handmaidens and multiple wives? Oh that’s right, you’ve moved on! Stop blaming me for your fashions!”
Poor old God, that’s what I’ve always said. It must be like asking your kid what they did at school only to find out your kid is a total cock.
These people have made themselves look completey and utterly out of touch with reality. I just want to put the lid back down on them. This sense of an idealised golden age of society where we had rock solid communities belies a zenophobia, homophobia, racism , inequality and abuse that was the consequence of that age. We may be in chaos but theres a sense of reality and truth and in fact this is it, chaos is it. There’s no chance of going back to this time. It’s gone. Whilst religion strengthened those communities it also papered over the cracks and preached against individualism and independent thinnking.We live in a fast paced bewilderingly changeable world and the skills we need to understand, adapt, respond and engage are around the areas of emotional literacy, memory development, nlp, with a stock of information to support this, human rights, rights of the child, child protection, health and safety, techno-savvy that kind of thing. By their own presentation they highlight how archaic,rigid and scared they are. The fear of society breaking down and morals running amok is so terrifying that they have ossified thought. They come across as completely untrustworty and paradoxically anti -community and society.
personally the time we live in are really exciting and change can happen soquickly and in such a variety of ways that so much more is possible than it ever was. Woo Hoo the time we live in.
ps In a gathering storm I like to protect myself with vaseline and a jaunty whistle
is there not something quite ironic about having a rainbow coalition against gay marriage?
I think that was intentional, Adam. It includes every creed and colour, you know! No gay people though, I don’t think.
Dave – you comment made me laugh the most.
I remember once at Uni a few of us had had a few beers and I suddenly shouted out “okay, last one to the bridge is a puff!” Now, I am not anti-gay, but all I remember is running, with a couple of others by my side to the bridge…my now wife, then girlfriend, just stayed behind with our friend Ian, who was in a relationship with another man, shaking her head. When I got to the bridge first, I lept up into the air, hands raised, shouting “Yes!”. I turned around to see my girlfriend, and Ian, my brain engaged, and my celebrations subsided. We still see Ian now and my wife’s best friend is in relationship with another woman…I just thought the story was amusing…and just shows how even perfect people like me sometimes manage to put our feet in our mouths.
However, the people on this video make me sick. Violently.
Hilarious + scary. Love the ‘rainbow coalition’.
I think the auditions suggest the woman may not be a real doctor:
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/04/auditioning-for-victimhood.html
Cool, I want to gatecrash their Rainbow coalition meeting by saying “thanks for supporting the rights of me and my gay partner to get married. What’s that, you meant something else? I just assumed with that rainbow flag outside… ”
Portia de Rossi (Ellen’s lesbian bride) had a great comeback for these people
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMLV3jPQW44&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Epinknews%2Eco%2Euk%2Fnews%2Farticles%2F2005%2D11709%2Ehtml&feature=player_embedded
Alright, I admit it, it’s all part of my diabolical scheme to turn everyone in the bible belt gay and abolish all straight marriages. I have a brewery truck outside, and every straight man in every town in the USA is getting 3 pints of lager – muahaahaahaahaahaaaaaa!!!
That’s totally unfair, Flapjack. They get lager and I don’t? Why not? Do I have to pretend to be an anti-gay American? I’ll do it, for a beer.
SGC- not sure if lager has the same effect on Canadians. You’ll have to do that experiment out of your own wallet. Sorry!
I’m British, I just live here. Also I am a girl. I can pretend to be a guy if that helps?
SGC- It’s just not the same… to make that work I’d have to drink the lager, and I just don’t like the taste of it!
Oh, I wasn’t paying attention to what the lager is meant to do, sorry. Just wanted some beer, you know? Oh well.
Carry on bashing gay-bashing people.
SGC – The Rainbow Alliance have simply cottoned on to a secret gayness formula the gay community has known for some time.
In fact there’s a joke about it:
“What’s the difference between a straight guy and a gay guy? About 3 pints of lager!”
Trouble is that just like ex-gay ministries, the effects are only temporary! On the plus side, the test subjects are usually quite willing…
Madness, and you would expect a doctor to have more sense… (for some reason)
that said, my sister has a friend who has Spina bifida and recently went to an Irish doctor for a prescription for viagra, which she wouldn’t give him because he isn’t married,
I’d the same situation the first time I went on the pill… not married? No contraception for you!!
If your Irish have a drink to lament it all now, because tomorrow is Good Friday and it’s still illegal here to sell alcohol on the day that ‘Jesus died’ (for the first time)
coming together in love . yea that be the day
The storm is coming? Like a Sodoom and Gomorrah storm? I think God just hasn’t come out of the closet yet, and this is just another psychological aversion until he tells his family and one and only begotten son that there’s no way he’s his.
SGC: That’s what I thought the doctor thing was about (I read childfree blogs, so I’m aware of those so-called ‘conscience clauses’ — they seem to be all about treating females as breeding stock and male property… :/). I still don’t see the connection between gay marriage and ‘conscience’ law, though. Well, maybe — it is remotely possible that the doctor character is supposed to be a fertility doctor, who isn’t allowed to refuse a same-sex couple IVF treatments. That’s all I can fathom, unless they aren’t just the Rainbow Coalition Against Teh Ghey, but more of a Rainbow Coalition for the Propagation of Ass-Backwards Fundieism. On second thought, that IS probably what they are…
@Shawn
My comment was meant to be funny, so I appreciate your laughs
I know exactly what your are talking about. A friend of mine had his coming out a couple of years ago and there were quite a few awkward situations like “Sorry, but your new hair cut looks pretty gay” “Yeah, but actually I am gay”
By the way, in the clip there is a very small note saying “All persons in this clip are actors”
The doctor is a freakin actor…
Siobhan: that’s absolutely shameful. I heard the abortion laws down there were pretty rough on women as well. If it’s any consolation, I doubt I’ll be allowed to buy my sinful beers here either.
Berber Anna: that is a logical connection, but it’s a bit TOO logical, you know? The right are focussing on abortion with the possible repeal of the conscience clause stuff, I don’t know that they’ve thought as far as IVF for female couples. It could be an attempt to capitalise on a Christian persecution complex. You know, being attacked on all fronts by them gays holding hands, and now also by them womens using birth control out of wedlock. It comes across like a call to arms for the people who supported prop 8. Worrying.
SGC- Alright, I’ll buy you a beer then! It’s not part of my evil gay remit, but I’ll have to make an exception for you!
Oh – WONDERFUL condemnation of this sort of garbage – right here:
Human Rights Campaign Exposes National Organization for Marriage’s Fake Ad for Fake Problems
http://www.hrc.org/12470.htm
i second the motion for a parody
it’s stupid is what it is
You’re my favourite, Flapjack!
Damn those gay people, wanting to have equal rights! How dare they? They\’re hurting us all with their love and equality. The world is not a safe place any more now that our children are being taught not to be homophobic in schools. Gay people need more consideration for our rights to discriminate against them without any real reasons!
Well I reckon marriage should be banned and then noone can get married- there is no such thing as love, it is all chemical reactions, it never comes from the heart, whether you are Gay/Bi/straight-its all in your head, love doesnt exist like God doesnt exist- get over it. For example I “love” chips but I wouldnt wanna marry them- its just a word, a meaningless empty word, and no i havent been hurt by anyone, Its just a fact.
Stick to sex and you will all be ok.
I think Gay’s will always be second class citizens. they say women are now equal- bollocks, if women had the same equality of men there would be no porn films, there would be no women being treat as sex objects, women would be getting pad the same as men etc,etc- Gays may get their rights but they will never be classed as what Hetrosexual men are- ie wankers that rule the effing world.
Wait just a minute there, Barr. Women are doing very well in the Western world. There are still inequalities, but it’s defeatist to suggest that women (or gay people) will always be second class. Look how far we’ve come from the days when it was legal to beat us, and we couldn’t vote.
Also, pfft sex. There’s such a thing as an asexual, you know. Just stick to… well, whatever.
Hugs? Or are we too cynical for those, too? ;o)
Of course love is chemical, and in your head. We — our personalities, our awareness — consist of chemical and electronic impulses inside our heads. That’s what we are. The fact that our hearts are just pumps doesn’t make love any less real. Knowing WHY I feel doesn’t mean the feelings are worthless — it just means I am aware of the mechanics behind them. Fascinating mechanics, and a lovely feeling.
Marriage, in my opinion, is an outdated ritual that considers people property. That said, if people want to get married, let them. It’s valuable to them, and harms nobody but (in case of divorce) themselves. It’s just not for me (though I do love wedding cakes
P). And sex/gender shouldn’t factor into that. If all adults of sound mind are equal in the eyes of the law, then the law should not ban them from signing a contract. Simple as that.
Erm… is this real?
It seems too bullshit to be real.
What a waste of electricity. Holy shit.
They’re always going on about “teaching same-sex marriage in school”. I don’t remember being ‘taught marriage’ in school. That’s more the sort of thing you just pick up from life. They don’t give lessons on being a husband or a wife.
People can think what they like.
One reason fundies think gay marriage threatens straight marriage is because it upsets their idea of gender roles. OMIGOD IT’S TWO WOMEN BEING MARRIED WHO WILL DO THE DIY AND BE HEAD OF THE HOUSEHOLD!!
(or, of course, OMIGOD IT’S TWO GUYS WHO IS GOING TO BE THE SUBERVIENT SUBMISSIVE ONE DOING THE COOKING)
The idea that you can have a *marriage* of equal parternships is pretty scary for them. They don’t want that idea spreading…
*rolls eyes*
The way I see it, using ‘gay’ as a word for something bad is not ok.
I know a lot of people do it without thinking, and in some places it’s the normal default insult – but it’s actually a really sinister & horrible thing to do.
Think about it like this: if someone uses ‘gay’ to mean ‘something bad, something to laugh at and avoid’, then they’re saying that everyone gay is bad and ought to be laughed at and avoided. It’s not a choice; you can’t say ‘oh no but I think this hat’s gay, which means it’s rubbish, but I don’t think gay people are rubbish’. If you decide to use ‘gay’ as an insult, then you’ve decided to insult everyone who is gay.
It seems really simple to me, but I’ve met a lot of people who have trouble getting it. The word has been so normalised as an insult that people who are usually friendly & thoughtful start using it just out of habit. A simple way of looking at it is
that when you call a whole section of the population bad, you’re doing what racists do. This isn’t ok.
(Oh, btw, that wasn’t getting at anyone who’s just told stories about saying ‘gay’ – I hope it didn’t come across that way!)
essen, are you saying that fundie people in straight marriages are not equal and are not equal in marriage? That the man has his place and the woman has her place, there is no equality – ever? There are equal and inequal marriages the whole world over – gay marriages included! You make it sound like gays have the perfect marriage/relationship lol
i can’t wait to rain on these peoples parade. Or rather piss on it.
………..I like caramel rolls…anyone?
Alice – spot on. If you substituted the word “gay” meaning crap for the word “black” or “Jewish” or “disabled” you’d get some pretty filthy stares at the very least and quite rightly so, but for some reason the current generation of schoolkids thinks “they’re just gay people, why can’t they take a harmless joke [at their expense]?”
It’s the thin end of a very large discrimination wedge and it gets right under my skin. We’ve come this far, just to be treated as second class citizens again. If your name or personal attributes became synonymous with all things crap, you’d get tired of it pretty quickly… it’s the same difference. You can’t compartmentalise equality, sorry guys.
OK minor rant over…
what right have they got to say if ‘same sex’ marriage is right or not – does my head in – how is it going to effect them? It’s not – grrrrr – bloody ppl. I wonder if there’s a petition against them. wierd thing is my cousin who’s had a civil ceremony is still being accepted in her church – so why can’t they all just accept, it’s how the world is – and so it should be equal rites. sorry i could go on forever …. i can’t believe they could make an ad on this .!!!!!
and what’s a storm got to do with it?
Tash – I think the whole storm thing is simply a very ham-fisted way to manipulate emotion, such as you get in Disney feature films where bad things happen and suddenly the skies darken and lightning flashes.
Otherwise they might just be those kind of Evangelical fundamentalist types who think that every time gay people do gay things god sends a tsunami or a hurricane or a tornado etc. Strangely they never interpret it as god’s animosity towards themselves when these things happen to their own churches, as was the case in New Orleans, where churches got flooded out but the gay district was largely unscathed! Weather to a fundamentalist is seldom due to atmospheric pressure or the gulf stream, there’s always got to be an alterior motive!
My family for the most part are open minded, inteligent people, but I have a sister who disagrees with gay marriage. She apparently doesn’t mind the idea of “civil union’s”, but the word “marriage” bothers her. When I pressed for her reasoning behind it (and we got past her saying that marriage is a term relating only to a man and a woman and me explaining that that is exactly the point of changing it to be more inclusive) she said it was because straight tax payers would have would have our tax money rerouted to pay for the marriages (I’m guessing she meant that in regard to judges being paid via tax money, but…nonetheless…). So, you can imagine the ease of the obvious retort being one to the effect of pointing out that gay taxpayers money has been going towards straight peoples weddings as well. Not sure she changed her mind though as I’m quite sure her dissention comes from an emotional place rather than a logical one. Just thought I’d share.
Oh…one more thing…just yesterday I saw a woman wearing a t-shirt that I chuckled to myself about. It read: “Marriage is so gay”
Hugs!
People don’t use the word gay for ‘something bad’. When people say something/someone is ‘gay’ they usually mean abnormal. Is there anything wrong with that?
Although, perhaps, the way gay people interpret it is what matters not what it was meant to infer. Any thoughts?
Josh – when I was one, fundamentalists had pretty strict teachings (based on Ephesians 5, Genesis and various other texts) about man’s role and female’s role. They are suppsedly ‘different but equal’ but I would argue they’re not very equal. the man is the head of the household and the woman should ‘submit’ to his leadership.
Of course, all marriages are unequal and gay marriages and relationships are no different. The difference between gay marriages and certain fundmentalists teachings on marriage is that in gay marriages the inequality is not based on GENDER. One might be stronger or better at cooking or more dominant or whatever, but that role is determined by who actually IS more dominant, not by some gender role crap about how men ‘should be’ the dominant ones.
I’m so glad you’ve picked up on this Derren. It turns my stomach that these people are allowed to get away with this. We should all be able to do something to stop them, but I just don’t know where to start.
How bothered about the weather can someone be? Having scoffed too many Easter eggs and drank too much wine.
Ed- so by that rationale, you’d feel quite comfortable with being labelled as ‘abnormal’ as opposed to ‘something bad’, and think gay people just don’t get it? Did I miss your point somewhere?
Sorry to get pedantic about semantics here, but you seem to have a pretty shaky grasp of the concept ‘loaded statement’.
‘Abnormal’ is how you describe a tumor you want removed, or the freak offspring of a cockroach and a naked mole rat. It’s not a term of respect or endearment. If you still can’t see why that’s such a problem, try describing your friends and work colleagues as abnormal to their face and see if they still want to be your friends afterwards.
When you use gay as a pejorative term, that’s how it comes across.
A storm coming !!…….this is a joke surely, if not, what a total lot of ‘bollocks’ this is. It’s also a blatant exploitation of the wonderful ‘You Tube’
Siobhan……When my mother found out (by accident) that I was taking the ‘pill’ she reminded me that ‘the pope’ doesn’t agree with any form of birth control whatsoever. I then asked her if he would be willing to help me pay my mortgage and support my child if I got pregnant. As you can imagine, that marked the end of my catholic upbringing and life as I knew it….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0pPEAdDn64
I think this version explains the anti gay marriage point of view far more accurately than the original.
This one’s still my favourite parody: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqDyrVha7oI